Circadian rhythm and Test
I'm on week 8-9 of my test e cycle.
Its been said, when you sleep, you grow. Well, the first month, I was a complete narcoleptic when I came out of the gym and was napping for hours after I worked out. This was keeping with my same intensity as before, I'm not sure why but I just felt tired more often after I worked out. Also, keep in mind I had just finished a year of intense running/triathlons comp. so I wasn't weak or out of shape.
Now, I'm finding that even with more intense exercise from before, I no longer need the afternoon naps and I'm staying up even later, till 11-12 pm (I'm up at 6 for work every morning). I'm eating, I'm gaining, but I no longer need to sleep as often. My strength is still going up, I'm a little under 200 now and I PR 310 on the bench for 4 reps.
There are alot of factors that go into an individuals circadian rhythm and there are natural dips throughout the day naturally, but I was thinking that cycling mimics a "growth" period in your body, and resets our bodies biology back to those younger years. Its like my sleep habits are resetting back to when I was a kid and I had a shit ton of energy on basically no sleep.
Just curious to see if anyone else has noticed a change, thanks brothers.
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You may be replicating the shift in circadian rhythm that teens get (stay up later etc./cant sleep before midnight) by introducing supraphysiological doses of aas... tricking the body in a sense. But the body always, always fights to return to homeostasis.
You will need to take control of that (sleep habits) eventually. 6 hours is proven now not to give enough time to reset the damage wakefulness does in a given day. Particularly cignitive function etc. You get away with it for years and then boom.
AAS provides accelerated recovery which is probably having an effect on you. I don't think they have anything to do with circadian rhythm though.
That has to be it, but I didn't think it would be like this. I thought it was more just about eliminating soreness, but the sleep thing has been a surprise.
I would still try to catch up on plenty of sleep and get into a consistent pattern. It will catch up with you otherwise.